Sovereign bodies : citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world by Thomas Blom Hansen(
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2005
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2009
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English and Undetermined
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'Sovereign Bodies' explores embedded practices & cultural meanings of sovereign power & violence as well as de facto practices
of citizenship & belonging to a range of different contexts across the postcolonial world

States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state by Thomas Blom Hansen(
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)16
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2001
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2009
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English and Undetermined
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368 WorldCat member
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Focusing on the micro-politics of everyday state-making, the contributors examine the mythologies, paradoxes and inconsistencies
of the state through ethnographies of diverse postcolonial practices. They show how the authority of the state is constantly
challenged from the local as well as the global, and how growing demands to confer rights and recognition to ever more citizens,
organizations and institutions reveal the persistence of the myth of the state as a source of social order and an embodiment
of popular sovereignty. Demonstrating the indispensable value of ethnographic work on the practices and the symbols of the
state, the volume showcases a range of studies and methods to provide insight into the diverse forms of the postcolonial state
as an arena of both political and cultural struggle

The BJP and the compulsions of politics in India(
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)17
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1988
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2001
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322 WorldCat member
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"The recent emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as India's strongest political party has changed the face of Indian
politics. The growth of Hindu nationalism, which the BJP largely represents, has been widely debated as a potential threat
to the future of democracy in India, to Indian secularism, and to the constitutional protection of India's minorities." "This
book examines systematically, for the first time, the history of the BJP and its current strategies and dilemmas. Well-known
scholars with an intimate knowledge of India's states analyse the specific trajectory of the BJP at the regional level, the
structure of its electorates, and the specific challenges it faces in major parts of India." "Topical and wide-ranging as
well as rigorously historical and empirical, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the current transformation
of Indian politics."--BOOK JACKET

Wages of violence : naming and identity in postcolonial Bombay by Thomas Blom Hansen(
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)12
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2001
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2002
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"When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary
symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of intense ethnic conflict and violent nationalism. Wages of Violence
is a startling account of how the city's atmosphere, dominant public languages, and power structures have changed since the
1960s. The book centers on how Shiv Sena, a militant Hindu movement, has advanced a new, ''plebeian'' political culture and
has undermined democratic rule in India's premier city. Drawing on a large body of archival material and conversations with
people from all walks of life, Thomas Blom Hansen paints a vivid picture of this dynamic and violent movement. Challenging
conventional views of recent trends in Indian politics, Hansen shows that the xenophobic public culture of today's Mumbai
has deep roots in the region's history and its contested identities. We are also given revealing insights into the city's
Muslim communities and the authorities' understanding and control of the ethno-religious subcultures in the city. Hansen argues
cogently that Shiv Sena's success represents the violent possibilities of the ''vernacularization'' of democracy in India.
Unfolding at a juncture where the globalization of India's economy is having a deepening impact on the lives of ordinary people,
this is a story that resonates with the directions urban growth is taking both elsewhere in India and beyond."--Page 4 of
cover

Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa by Thomas Blom Hansen(
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)15
editions published
in
2012
in
English and Undetermined
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226 WorldCat member
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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction:
define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less
the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid
freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have
accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Du

PHP for absolute beginners by Jason Lengstorf(
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2014
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PHP is a server-side scripting language that enables you to develop dynamic sites that engage users in ways that are simply
not possible using only HTML and CSS. PHP for Absolute Beginners takes a practical approach to teaching you how to build dynamic
content for your website using PHP. You'll quickly get started with practical PHP projects, learning how to build a dynamic
image gallery. By the end of the book you'll will have developed a personal blog complete with a password protected admin
module. PHP for Absolute Beginners won't swamp you with every detail of the full PHP language up front - instead, you'll be
introduced to a small, versatile subset of PHP and learn to use it creatively to develop dynamic web sites. In the process
you will learn to use variables, control structures, functions, and objects to your advantage. You will learn how to plan
and create databases and how to organize your PHP scripts beautifully. At the end of the book, you will be a confident PHP
user, ready to take the next steps in creating great websites

Urban charisma(
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2009
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Cool passion the political theology of conviction: inaugural lecture delivered upon the installation as Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Amsterdam on Friday 25 May 2007 by Thomas Blom Hansen(
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)7
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2009
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3 WorldCat member
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The category of belief has been severely criticised in the last decades but ideas of having principles based on interior refl
ections and conscience are as strong as ever across the world. This indicates that the modern idea of conviction - religious
or secular - should be understood as a way of relating to the world that has a genealogy of its won that is not identical
to religious belief. Modern convictions are based on two forms of ethics: firstly an individualized ethics of sincerity that
emerged from the 17th century onwards as an ideal of honest and consistent public conduct. Secondly, an ethics of consequence
that emerges with radical, Jacobin and collective politics and a new belief in radical socio-political utopias in the 19th
century. In the 20th century, these ethical formations have spread across the world and form today the basis of a global grammar
of interiority that lies at the heart of near-universal fi gures such as the 'activist' and the committed selfl ess social
worker. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056295509